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Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"With her trademark spare, crystalline prose-a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)-Elizabeth Strout once again turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Oh William! through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books, Ltd
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he looks back upon his life in his enforced quarantine solitude, wondering what it all means and who he really is.
Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered no velist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life. Like a twenty-first-century Scheherazade, Dora spins stories to ward off her end. From New Delhi to New York, Copenhagen...
Author
Series
Vincent Calvino mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Heaven Lake Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first pandemic screamed through the sky like a flock of Mourning dove. Our global mourning had just begun. Wave after wave of new pandemics followed. Fire-breathing dragon like pandemics.
Scientists learned to sequence and alter the genetic RNA of viruses. Labs popped up to manufacture new viruses.
The novel opens with Vincent Calvino returning to Bangkok from New York City. He discovers the possibilities of manufactured viruses changes the way...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, a moving tale of forbidden love and extraordinary courage in the face of disaster. Eighteen-year-old Niri and his family live a modest but secure life working in the villa of the wealthy Benzes. But when the pandemic comes, they are all let go, and left staring into the abyss of abject poverty. As their situation grows increasingly desperate, the once rule-abiding monastery...
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